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Attendance at tutorials and preliminary examinations, both by contract lecturers, is required.

Verification on the basis of the certificates obtained in relation to the activities conducted by the student.

This course aims to provide the basics for the first encoding of a text in XML-TEI. Topics include: introduction of mark-up languages; XML syntax and model; creation of a DTD using the TEI-Roma tool; digital edition of a text; TEI P5 guidelines (teiHeader, body of a document, milestones, @ref, encoding of named entity)

Previous knowledge of digital humanities is not necessary for this course. Basic notions of linguistics, philology, and minimal skills in using a PC (management and saving files) are required.

Slides of lessons and exercises available on

The final exam consists of a written test, including: 1) A question on the topics of the course; 2) an exercise of encoding for a short text. The goal is NOT to memorize a set of tags, but to know how to use the documentation of a language (TEI) in a conscious way on a text.

Optional, for non-attending students it is possible to combine the study of the text with slides: Lou Burnard, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, TEI Lite: Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI. https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-exemplars/html/tei_lite.doc.html

For this course, it is necessary using of laptops during practical exercises in classroom. Texts and slides are made available on google classroom.